It grieved me sore That so sacred a place should be polluted by one who, on many accounts, ought not to have come there, being no priest, a stranger, an Ammonite, and one of the worst of that people; and that all this should be done by the permission and order of the high-priest.
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Nehemiah 13:8
8 And it grieved me sore: therefore I cast forth all the household stuff of Tobiah out of the chamber.